Miami Vice: The Game

Monday 17 July 2006 Miami Vice opens with an option screen that says as much about gaming's potential for wish fulfilment in four words as you could in 40,000: 'Please Select: Crockett/Tubbs'. Rebellion has taken the deftness for source material it showed with Rogue Trooper and applied it to Michael Mann's series (and now film) with a fizz of neon and a flare of cocktail-pink sunsets. Much less mechanical than you might expect of a handheld movie tie-in, Miami Vice is nonetheless a » Read Full Miami Vice: The Game preview

When we booted up our preview copy of Miami Vice, we expected it to be another run-of-the-mill third-person shooter based on a big summer movie. What we didn't expect was a game that plays so much like Resident Evil 4 that we half-expected some chainsaw-wielding lunatic to leap out and decapitate us. Miami Vice - due July 18 - emulates RE4's trademark behind-the-shoulder view and zoom-in-to-aim mechanic almost perfectly. But where RE4 was a fairly deep action-adventure, Miami Vice is a » Read Full Miami Vice: The Game preview